Gardhiwala

Garhdiwala is a town and municipal council in Hoshiarpur district in the state of Punjab, India. thumb|Devi Mandir, Garhdiwala.

Weather now

cached 1662h ago

36°scattered clouds

46% 3.9 m/s OpenWeatherMap

7-day forecast

via Open-Meteo

Place details

Locality: Galowal
Region: Punjab
Country: India
Population: 7,593
Timezone: Asia/Kolkata

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Key facts

Settlement.name: Garhdiwala
Settlement.settlement_type: City
Settlement.image_skyline: Gardhiwala.jpg
Settlement.pushpin_map: India Punjab
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Punjab, India
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Punjab
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Hoshiarpur
Settlement.founder: Chaudhary Garhia Sahota
Settlement.governing_body: Municipal Council
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.population_total: 7,593
Settlement.population_as_of: 2011
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.demographics_type1: Languages Punjabi
Settlement.demographics1_title1: Official

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of: human settlement
Country: India
Located in: Hoshiarpur District
Elevation: 270
Time zone: UTC+05:30
Image: Gardhiwala.jpg
Dialing code: 188346

Show 1 more fact

postal code: 144207

Sources (1)

wikidata.org

via Wikidata · CC0

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

3 sections

Contents

History
Demographics
References

Garhdiwala is a town and municipal council in Hoshiarpur district in the state of Punjab, India. thumb|Devi Mandir, Garhdiwala.

== History == The town was founded by a person named by Chaudhary Garhia Sahota a Jatt landlord of the area in the year 1443. the town also had a devi mandir and was known as Garhia devi wala and later it evolved into Garhdiwala, during the misl era the modern temple building was built by Sikh Sardars. The town was the seat of Sahota Jatt Chaudhris/Jagirdars of the area During the Mughal era and it is also mentioned in the 1595 Mughal Zamindar record list of Suba Lahore.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gardhiwala” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.